Moo-ving to College
There’s a funny cartoon in this week O’Collegian, the student newspaper at Oklahoma State University.
It’s a drawing of a calf asking its mother the whereabouts of their livestock trailer.
The cow answers “Hauling the kid to Stillwater.”
Maybe I laughed because it struck home. Until about two years ago when I finally hired a moving company, I’ve used my family’s livestock trailer for every move I’ve ever made.
Moving to Stillwater as an OSU student, I didn’t even think it odd that my meager belongings got there in a trailer more suited to bovine. (The key here is making sure the trailer is cleaned very well before the move.)
I suppose if I had been moving to Norman, it might have drawn a few double-takes.
After all, OU offers valet services for some of its dorms. You can hire people to take your belongings from your moving van into your room. If you pay them even more, they’ll come clean your bathroom every week.
Maybe cash-trapped ranchers can start hiring out their trailers to students — a Cowboy moving company if you will. It may not be luxurious, but a little baling wire and some duct tape would keep your things secure.
What’s the strangest way you ever got your belongings from Place A to Place B? How will you be moving to college this summer?
E-mail me at ssimpson@oklahoman.com
Susan Simpson, Education Writer
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One summer in college I moved everything I owned in multiple trips using my Honda hatchback. Everything I owned fit in boxes except my mattress. I put the mattress on the roof and secured it using the best method available. Lacking rope or tiedowns I drove slowly with my left arm out the window, holding the mattress on the roof. In the 9 blocks I moved, it only fell off once. A college degree does not equate to common sense.